An Oxford resident has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a Violet Hill man on Tuesday, August 20.
Izard County officers were called to the scene of a shooting in the home of Mike Rush on Wideman Road in Oxford at 9:33 p.m. Rush, age 42, allegedly shot Ted Foreman, age 50 of Violet Hill with a .357 pistol. Foreman died of his wounds at the scene.
According to Izard County Sheriff Tate Lawrence, Rush and Foreman knew each other, and there are witnesses to the shooting.
Rush is being held at the Izard County Detention Facility pending investigation of the shooting according to Lawrence.